Vaginal syringe



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VAGINAL SYRING E.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 609,432, dated August 23, 1898.

Application filed February 1 5, 1898. Serial No. 670345. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ZERAH L. I-IAYDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cedar Rapids, in the county of Linn and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Inprovernents in Vaginal Syringes and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to instruments for the treatment of the female organs of generation, and has for its object to provide efficient means for irrigating or medicating the uterus and adjacent parts and drawing out therefron diseased or deleterious matter.

The invention consists, essentially, in a pump provided With a vent-pipe to regulate its suotion and injecting apparatus for medicating or irrigating purposes.

In the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure lis a side elevation of a devce embodying my invention, a portion of the upper end of the main cylinder being broken away to show the outlet. Fig. 2 is a central section of the same and in the same plane.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

In many cases of disease peculiar to women it is desirable to thoroughly cleanse the uterus and adjacent parts, as by the administration of a donche or the like. This invention is designed to accomplish the same purpose by means less cumbersone than those in common use and better calculated to force or draw out injurious matter from the parts aftected.

Referring to the drawings, A denotes the cylinder of a small pump of suitable size for the vagina. This is provided with a piston B, the rod B' of which is provided With a suitable lifting-head 13 The piston does not diifer essentially from that of an ordinary pump and is provided with a check-valve 13 arranged as in the ordinary lift-pump.

At the lower end the cylinder is provided with a suitably-rounded nozzle C, provided with a cheek-valve C' and perforated, as shown.

.At the upper end of the cylinder, or near it, is an outlet nozzle or nipple A', adapted to connect with a bulb D to receive whatever may be drawn out.

Along one side of the cylinder A and per manently attached thereto is a vent-pipe E, communicating at the lower end with the perforated nozzle C and at the upper end provided with a shallow cup E' to receive the finger of the operator. By this means the suction of the piston may be regulated, the

operator closing or unclosing the vent according as the suction 'of the pump may be pain ful or otherwise. On the opposite side of the cylinder is a small pipe F, open at both ends,` the lower end communicating also with the nozzle C and the upper end curved away from the cylinder-head A and adapted for the attachment of a short piece of rubber tube G, to which is connected a bulb H. The communication of either the vent-pipe or this pipe with the nozzle need not be wholly internal, as indicated in Fig. 2, since practically the same results i are Secured by an opening at the lower end of either pipe adjacent to the nozzle.

In the operation of the device the bulb H is first filled with water or with any suitable liquid medicinal preparation with which to irrigate the affected parts. The pump being then insertedin the vagina the liquid in the bulb is injected and after having produced the desired beneficial effects is drawn out by means of the pump into the bulb D to be discharged on the removal and cleansing ot' the pump. i

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combination in a vaginal syringe, of a pump, composed of a cylinder with an outlet near the upper end, a suitable cylinder head through which the piston-rod passes, a piston-red having alifter at the outer end and a valved piston at the other end, and a perforated nozzle at the lower end of the cylinder, with a valve therein, anda vent-pipe at tached to said cylinder, its open, lower end communicating mediately or directly with` said noazle and its open upper end having a suitable fingermup, substantially as de scribed.

2. The combination with a pump, substan tiaiiy as described, consisting essentially of a cylinder With a valved, perforated nozzle at the lower end, an outlet near the upper end, a head toreeeiVe the pist0nrod, and a suitable valved piston, rod and lifter, of an openended pipe attached to one side of the eylinder, its lowerend communieating with said nozzle, and means substantially as described for injecting liquid through said pipe.

3. The combination of a punp substantially as described, provided With vent and inject'ion pipes anda suitable discharge-outlet, and the reeeiving 'and injeeting bulbs removably attached to said outlet and injecting pipes, respectively.

In testimony Whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

ZERAH L. IIAYDEN.

Witnesses:

J. M. ST. JOHN, J. F. GROAT. 

